Lawyers for Liberty has slammed the government's justification to keep Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) closed to non-bumiputera students.

Its director Zaid Malek said Higher Education Minister Zambry Abd Kadir's move to cite a Bumiputera Economic Congress report which noted the socioeconomic gap with non-bumiputera to justify the decision was "absurd, unreasonable and unconstitutional”....